By Ahirudin Attan aka rockybru
Monday, June 16, 2008
Citizen X. You can assume that Citizen X, who wrote the letter to Malay Mail entitled “My 230 sen view”, is someone who was there helping us out back in 1997 and who’s as pissed off as you and I on the subject of the recent 41%-63% petrol/diesel price increase.
“Ever since fuel prices accelerated at an unfamiliar pace since 2005, we have been behaving like schoolboys on their first science project, testing hypothesis and making assumptions as if there’s no real or permanent impact on our surroundings. From the manner the last two fuel increases have been announced, it is obvious that we have not done sufficient research on this critical subject.
“Making announcements at the last minute, promising no increase yet doing so subsequently, preaching changes in lifestyles to the rakyat is not on.”
The writer went on asking about MTEN, the body that “went ‘deep and wide’ in addressing the financial crisis of 1997”.
After years of reading the same letters sent in by the same writers in the other papers, Citizen X’s epistle in Malay Mail is a refreshing change.